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Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...
Buttock implants have evolved considerably over the past decade or two due to the rise in demand. The overall rise is a reflection of the public’s desire for buttock augmentation in general and implants in particular for those that patients that are not candidates for or have failed BBL surgery. Of the two specific areas Read More…
Background: Implants remain the definitive buttock augmentation procedure when fat grafting (BBL surgery) has ‘failed’ or there are inadequate fat stores to harvest. While implants provide an assured volume outcome their long-term success (lack of immediate or relayed complications) is highly dependent on the tissue pocket in which it was placed. As a general rule Read More…
Intramuscular buttock implants is viewed in the U.S. as the most successful long term implant buttock augmentation method. Despite the reduction in complications with this pocket location, as opposed to that of the subfascial, it is still not popular or commonly done amongst plastic surgeons. The reason is that the anatomic dissection is not easy Read More…
Background: While BBL surgery is the most common form of buttock augmentation today not everyone is a good candidate or achieves a satisfactory result. Some patients have inadequate fat to harvest while others have the BBL procedure but not enough fat survives to achieve their their aesthetic augmentation goal. As a result implants remain a Read More…
Implants are the definitive buttock augmentation option in patients with inadequate fat harvest sites or who have had inadequate BBL (fat injection) results. The placement of buttock implants can be done in three different pocket locations, above the muscle (subfascial), inside the muscle (intramuscular) and below the muscle. (submuscular) No buttock implant pocket location is Read More…
Background: Buttock augmentation is most commonly performed by fat injections, reserving implants for non-candidates or inadequate BBL results. While these buttock enhancement approaches apply to both women and men there are some gender differences. While men can do like women synthetic fillers and fat injections they often are less tolerant of procedures that require multiple Read More…
Background: One of the common and popular body contouring surgeries today is the Brazilian Butt Lift or BBL surgery. The goal of the surgery is to create a larger buttock appearance. The name, however, doesn’t really describe how the procedure creates this effect and is even a bit misleading. In reality this is a fat Read More…
The intramuscular pocket has become the preferred location for buttock implants. As opposed to the historic subfascial location, deeper intramuscular pockets provide better implant soft tissue coverage which lowers almost all of the known buttock implant complications, particularly fluid collections, inferior migration and implant show. But this is not a natural tissue plane like the Read More…
The major change in buttock implants over the past two decades is improvements in the implant’s durometer and better soft tissue coverage of the implants. Buttock implants used to be made of a more stiffer silicone durometer which gave them a hard and unnatural feel. That has been improved by softer more gel-like durometers which Read More…
Background: Buttock augmentation is generally a procedure than is done much more frequently in women. Between synthetic fillers, BBL fat injections and implants the female patient probably comprises 95% to 98% of the buttock augmentation population. It is not that men don’t undergo buttock augmentation but the buttocks is less of a signifier ant nconcern Read More…
Clinical Outcomes in Rib Removal Surgery for Waistline Reduction
Rib removal surgery represents the elimination of the last anatomic...
The Surgical Technique of Clavicular Osteotomies in Shoulder Width Reduction
Shoulder width reduction is done by shortening the length of the...
The shape and appearance of the forehead is highly influenced by...
Background: The evolution of rhinoplasty surgery over the past twenty years...